https://simplecast.com Techno Theology Digital eventology at the edge of religion, with Barry Taylor and Josef Gustafsson. 2020 Techno Theology en Sat, 21 Mar 2020 11:43:34 +0000 Sat, 21 Mar 2020 14:05:14 +0000 https://techno-theology.simplecast.com Techno Theology https://cdn.simplecast.com/images/c1a5f307-d87f-4978-9077-c43ea7fbaa09/40ae01d2-a7e0-49b8-991c-53293b06a014/3000x3000/tt2.jpg?aid=rss_feed https://techno-theology.simplecast.com episodic Digital eventology at the edge of religion, with Barry Taylor and Josef Gustafsson. Barry Taylor, Josef Gustafsson yes https://feeds.simplecast.com/0qSz21GK activism, art, philosophy, politics, religion, technology, theology, futurism Techno Theology technotheologypodcast@gmail.com fb61abaa-b098-463d-826f-56fb49ca8366 Becoming Worthy Of The Event Being open to what is novel speaks of a willingness of becoming worthy of the event, which requires us to affirm both the becoming of being and the being of becoming, which is paramount since it makes organization and stability possible, while maintaining the plasticity of the structures we depend on. The reactive mind fails to perform this double affirmation since it perceives antagonisms and separation as fundamental to difference, which in effect leaves it blind in the face of novelty. Whatever is novel, singular and rare is nailed to a tree in series of deathly repetitions, because its strangeness challenges the established order. This is the nature of scapegoating, and the most common mode of articulation in political discourses.

Julia Kristeva writes: ”Strangely, the foreigner lives within us: he is the hidden face within our identity, the space that wrecks our abode… by recognizing him within ourselves, we are spared detesting him in himself.”

Affirming our difference, the becoming of our being, our strangeness within, opens up fields of virtuality - unseen possibilities - and it liberates our minds to conceive a reality beyond the contours of what is. It puts us in motion, in process, and it allows for an apocalypticism that neither succumb to defeatism, nor totalitarianism, but one that is becoming worthy of events that holds within themselves the power to crack the stale surface of the strata and qualitatively transform the world as we know it.

]]> Sat, 21 Mar 2020 11:43:34 +0000 technotheologypodcast@gmail.com (Teologen, Josef Gustafsson, Barry Taylor) https://techno-theology.simplecast.com/episodes/becoming-worthy-of-the-event-3YiURtLj Being open to what is novel speaks of a willingness of becoming worthy of the event, which requires us to affirm both the becoming of being and the being of becoming, which is paramount since it makes organization and stability possible, while maintaining the plasticity of the structures we depend on. The reactive mind fails to perform this double affirmation since it perceives antagonisms and separation as fundamental to difference, which in effect leaves it blind in the face of novelty. Whatever is novel, singular and rare is nailed to a tree in series of deathly repetitions, because its strangeness challenges the established order. This is the nature of scapegoating, and the most common mode of articulation in political discourses.

Julia Kristeva writes: ”Strangely, the foreigner lives within us: he is the hidden face within our identity, the space that wrecks our abode… by recognizing him within ourselves, we are spared detesting him in himself.”

Affirming our difference, the becoming of our being, our strangeness within, opens up fields of virtuality - unseen possibilities - and it liberates our minds to conceive a reality beyond the contours of what is. It puts us in motion, in process, and it allows for an apocalypticism that neither succumb to defeatism, nor totalitarianism, but one that is becoming worthy of events that holds within themselves the power to crack the stale surface of the strata and qualitatively transform the world as we know it.

]]> Becoming Worthy Of The Event Teologen, Josef Gustafsson, Barry Taylor 00:40:28 Barry Taylor and Josef Gustafsson speak on the nature of technology and about human interaction with it - how we create technology and how technology creates us. As Marshall McLuhan writes: “We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.” But the episode opens with an intro in which Josef explicate some further thoughts about the opening statement (episode 1) articulated at the European Radical Theology Network gathering in Utrecht, emphasizing the importance of becoming worthy of the event. Music by Teologen Barry Taylor and Josef Gustafsson speak on the nature of technology and about human interaction with it - how we create technology and how technology creates us. As Marshall McLuhan writes: “We become what we behold. We shape our tools, and thereafter our tools shape us.” But the episode opens with an intro in which Josef explicate some further thoughts about the opening statement (episode 1) articulated at the European Radical Theology Network gathering in Utrecht, emphasizing the importance of becoming worthy of the event. Music by Teologen zizek, technology, event, marshall mcluhan, eventology, deleuze, theology, julia kristeva yes full 4 e4dbd5bc-0fc1-44be-9d5f-0c7914f3a410 Being Different In The World Music by Teologen

]]> Tue, 10 Mar 2020 22:43:59 +0000 technotheologypodcast@gmail.com (Slavoj Zizek, Teologen, Josef Gustafsson, Barry Taylor) https://techno-theology.simplecast.com/episodes/being-different-in-the-world-d2shfWiH Music by Teologen

]]> Being Different In The World Slavoj Zizek, Teologen, Josef Gustafsson, Barry Taylor 00:25:12 In episode 3 of Techno Theology, Barry Taylor and Josef Gustafsson talk about the folding of the future and how the power to organize the world has moved from old institutions like parliaments and universities to discrete spaces where the algorithms controlling the flows of information are coded. They also discuss the Internet as a recording machine that stores information and how control over this memory translates to the power to dictate human behavior. In episode 3 of Techno Theology, Barry Taylor and Josef Gustafsson talk about the folding of the future and how the power to organize the world has moved from old institutions like parliaments and universities to discrete spaces where the algorithms controlling the flows of information are coded. They also discuss the Internet as a recording machine that stores information and how control over this memory translates to the power to dictate human behavior. the internet, democracy, digital, zizek, equality, difference, crisis, deleuze yes full 3 48725ae3-1b2d-4e60-9220-8487f51b6a1e The Time Is Short Friedrich Nietzsche wrote: “I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.” For better or worse, those days are now gone.

The most imperative unarticulated presupposition of Western culture has been the free and unified subject, sustained by the theological illusion as the guarantor of its intrinsic value, as articulated by Descartes. It was by making use of the grammatical postulate of the indivisible Cogito as the metaphysical underpinning of civilization that the governing rationality of our judicial, financial and political order could emerge. However, the implicit representational logic steadfastly administrating the societal machines has mostly been left unthought and our collective unconscious has therefore managed to effectively reduce differences in a sacrificial process of deathly repetitions, which has organized and nailed down each human body of the socious as a subject of one.

The accelerating level of productiveness has been astonishing all throughout this grammatical paradigm, despite the wars and cults of death it predictibly produced, primarily to the satisfaction of the elect — the main beneficiaries of the current set of folds. Everything has seemed possible and although postmodern theories has challenged the state of affairs, the Cogito has prevailed. Until now.

]]> Sun, 2 Feb 2020 23:10:17 +0000 technotheologypodcast@gmail.com (Teologen, Josef Gustafsson, Barry Taylor) https://techno-theology.simplecast.com/episodes/the-time-is-short-JrrqVgm8 Friedrich Nietzsche wrote: “I am afraid we are not rid of God because we still have faith in grammar.” For better or worse, those days are now gone.

The most imperative unarticulated presupposition of Western culture has been the free and unified subject, sustained by the theological illusion as the guarantor of its intrinsic value, as articulated by Descartes. It was by making use of the grammatical postulate of the indivisible Cogito as the metaphysical underpinning of civilization that the governing rationality of our judicial, financial and political order could emerge. However, the implicit representational logic steadfastly administrating the societal machines has mostly been left unthought and our collective unconscious has therefore managed to effectively reduce differences in a sacrificial process of deathly repetitions, which has organized and nailed down each human body of the socious as a subject of one.

The accelerating level of productiveness has been astonishing all throughout this grammatical paradigm, despite the wars and cults of death it predictibly produced, primarily to the satisfaction of the elect — the main beneficiaries of the current set of folds. Everything has seemed possible and although postmodern theories has challenged the state of affairs, the Cogito has prevailed. Until now.

]]> The Time Is Short Teologen, Josef Gustafsson, Barry Taylor 00:28:57 Barry Taylor and Josef Gustafsson talk about the end times - how the time is short. Music by Teologen Barry Taylor and Josef Gustafsson talk about the end times - how the time is short. Music by Teologen apocalypse, descartes, identity politics, bergson, deleuze, the time is short, paul, end times yes full 2 d56889bd-c93e-4fa0-acda-585ae311e0b5 Opening Statement Opening statement

Radical theology is an embrace of the deadlock in reality, an openness to novelty and an affirmation of the lack at the heart of human existence.

Music by Teologen

Radical Theology: disharmonie en gebrek zijn de kern van ons bestaan

]]> Thu, 16 Jan 2020 01:06:31 +0000 technotheologypodcast@gmail.com (Srecko Horvat, Teologen, Josef Gustafsson, Barry Taylor) https://techno-theology.simplecast.com/episodes/opening-statement-tJtwm1Ub Opening statement

Radical theology is an embrace of the deadlock in reality, an openness to novelty and an affirmation of the lack at the heart of human existence.

Music by Teologen

Radical Theology: disharmonie en gebrek zijn de kern van ons bestaan

]]> Opening Statement Srecko Horvat, Teologen, Josef Gustafsson, Barry Taylor 00:35:34 Barry Taylor and Josef Gustafsson talk about their visit to Utrecht, radical theology, scapegoating, and the motivation behind starting a podcast. Barry Taylor and Josef Gustafsson talk about their visit to Utrecht, radical theology, scapegoating, and the motivation behind starting a podcast. radical theology, nietzsche, religion, europe, novelty, boris johnson, henri bergson, brexit yes full 1